“What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.” KnowsWorldMeanIndividualViewsEvolutionActivityEthicsPoint Of ViewRationalDispositionAffirmationExtensionsWorld And Life Book:Civilization and Ethics Source: Civilization and Ethics
“Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.” MindMatterLaughingEvolutionRational Author:Merle Haggard
“I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how people work. So I think most moral philosophy is disconnected from the species that we happen to be. In fact, they like it that way. Many moral philosophers insist that morality grows out of our rationality, that it applies to any rational being anywhere in the universe, and that it is not based on contingent or coincidental facts about our evolution.” PeopleThinkingDonePhilosophyTogetherUniverseMoralEvolutionMoralityPhilosopherRationalRationalityClueSpeculationMoral Philosophy Author:Jonathan Haidt
“I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsKindImportantCertainLevelsWillingEvolutionIntellectualArguingRationalJustify Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.” ThinkingAgeEvolutionMythRationalGreekGreek MythNorse Author:Tom Wolfe
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.” LifeDoeGodSeemsMotivationalSpiritualLyingCertainReligionSpiritualityFearKnowledgePathAtheismMankindEvolutionBlindStriveAtheistGenuineRationalScience And ReligionFear Of DeathReligious FaithRelativitySpiritual PathRational ThinkingAtheisticSpirit Of GodBlind FaithReligion GodGod LifeKnowledge Of GodScience ReligionFears Of LifeMore KnowledgeReligious LifeMorality And ReligionSpiritual EvolutionFaith ReligionGod And ScienceScience GodSpiritual KnowledgeGreatest AtheistHave Faith In GodCertain DeathCertain KnowledgeAdvances In ScienceSpiritual FaithGod And LifeGod Is RealGenuine Life Book:Ideas and Opinions Source: Ideas and Opinions
“In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.” WorldLooksChildrenMy OwnSimplePrinciplesProgressTaughtEvolutionHealthyPlantLifetimeRationalSimple LivingWondrousHealthy Happy Author:Luther Burbank
“It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the average white man. And, if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites.” ThinkingMenBelieveStillsFactsAbleWhiteEvolutionEqualBiggerIncrediblesAverageSuperiorsRationalBitesContestsWhite ManRivalsCognizant Author:Thomas Huxley